-
A culture of growth
From Nobel Prize–winning economist Joel Mokyr, a revealing look at why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much ...
Read MoreRegular price $26.95Sale price $26.95 Regular price $26.95Unit price per -
Between debt and the devil
Why our addiction to debt caused the global financial crisis and is the root of our financial woesAdair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial regulation. In ...
Read MoreRegular price $20.95Sale price $20.95 Regular price $20.95Unit price per -
Governing cities through regions
Deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project on the subject of regional governance in Canada and Europe. The book expands the comparative angle from economic competitiveness and social cohesion to housing and transportation and expands our perspec...
Read MoreRegular price $43.99Sale price $43.99 Regular price $43.99Unit price per -
Happiness for all?
How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided societyThe Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights. Among them is the pursuit of happiness. But is happiness available equally to everyone in America? How about el...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Industrial colonialism in latin america
Confronting the critical problems of Latin American development, this volume expertly roots these challenges in the structures of colonialism.
Regular price $25.00Sale price $25.00 Regular price $25.00Unit price per -
Invisible leviathan
This updated and expanded edition critically explores and makes significant contributions to the debate surrounding Karl Marx's "capitalist law of value.'
Regular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
Meritocracy and economic inequality
Most Americans strongly favor equality of opportunity if not outcome, but many are weary of poverty's seeming immunity to public policy. This helps to explain the recent attention paid to cultural and genetic explanations of persistent poverty, including claims that economic inequality is a funct...
Read MoreRegular price $93.00Sale price $93.00 Regular price $93.00Unit price per -
Portfolios of the poor
Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, m...
Read MoreRegular price $34.00Sale price $34.00 Regular price $34.00Unit price per -
Resurrecting retail
Few crises in modern history have so completely disrupted every aspect of daily life as has the COVID-19 pandemic. What began as a small medical ripple in Wuhan, China, a city many of us had never heard of, quickly erupted into a tsunami of epic proportions. Every market, industry, vertical, pro...
Read MoreRegular price $28.00Sale price $28.00 Regular price $28.00Unit price per -
The dollar trap
Why the dollar is—and will remain—the dominant global currencyThe U.S. dollar's dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008–2009, political paralysis that has blocked effective policymaking, and emerging competitors such as the Chinese renminbi have height...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
The dollar trap
Why the dollar is—and will remain—the dominant global currencyThe U.S. dollar's dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008–2009, political paralysis that has blocked effective policymaking, and emerging competitors such as the Chinese renminbi have height...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
The great leveler
How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequalit...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
The message matters
The economy is so powerful in determining the results of U.S. presidential elections that political scientists can predict winners and losers with amazing accuracy long before the campaigns start. But if it is true that "it's the economy, Stupid," why do incumbents in good economies sometimes los...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
The rise and fall of american growth
How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threatIn the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
